Dussartcyclops mortoni
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| Dussartcyclops mortoni | |
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Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Clade: | Pancrustacea |
| Class: | Copepoda |
| Order: | Cyclopoida |
| Family: | Cyclopidae |
| Genus: | Dussartcyclops |
| Species: | D. mortoni |
| Binomial name | |
| Dussartcyclops mortoni (Karanovic, 2004) | |
 Holotype site: Western Australia'"`UNIQ--ref-00000003-QINU`"' | |
| Synonyms | |
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Goniocyclops mortoni Karanovic, 2004 | |
Dussartcyclops mortoni is a species of copepod in the family, Cyclopidae, and was first described as Goniocyclops uniarticulatus in 2004 by Tomislav Karanovic.[1][2][3] In 2011, Karanovic, Stefan Eberhard and A. Murdoch, assigned it to the new genus, Dussartcyclops.[2][4]
It is a freshwater copepod species,[2] found in subterranean wells and bores in arid Western Australia.[5][3]